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JACOB \VALDER, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY; MARY IVALDER EXECUTRIX OF SAID JACOB WALDER, DECEASED.

LOOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,491, dated April 19, 1898.

Application filed July 22, 1896. Serial No. 600,103. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: The dents are spaced apart at the upper ends Be it known that I, JACOB IVALDER, a resithereof in any desired manner, but preferdent of Paterson, county of Passaic, State of ably by the spacing-strips f, each of which New Jersey, have invented certain new and projects between two of the dents,the spacing- 5 useful Improvements in Looms, of which the strips in themselves going to form a reed-like following is a specification. construction, which separates the upperdents My invention relates to looms; and the obin the reed proper and which I refer to herein ject of said invention is to provide a loom as a spacing-reed. On the batten is carwherein pattern goods can be produced in a ried a ratchet-wheel g, which is adapted to 10 simple and efficient manner without the nerotate in the bearing h and is provided at its I cessity of resorting to the use of complicated inner end with a plug-like extension 11, from mechanism. which projects a pin j. This pin is adapted To this end my invention consists in certain to enter a slot is in a pattern-cylinder F and details and arrangement and combination of to secure said pattern-cylinder to the ratchet- 15 parts hereinafter described and claimed. wheel g, so as to rotate therewith. Upon a In the accompanying drawings, wherein suitable projection Z, extending from the like parts are indicated by the same reference frame A, is a pawl m, which is adapted to encharacters, Figure 1 represents a vertical longage with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel g, as gitudinal section of a sufficient number of indicated in Fig. 1, and to step the pattern- 20 parts of a loom to illustrate my invention. cylinder around at each beat-up of the bat- Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section, on the ten. The pattern-cylinder is so located that line 2 2 of Fig. 3, on an enlarged scale, of a the periphery thereof extends against the reed embodying my invention. Fig. 3 is a dents of the reed, as indicated in Fig. 4, and fragmental face view of the same. Fig. 4 is a limits the movement of the dents in a direc- 25 top fragmental View of certain of the parts tion opposite to that in which the weft is represented in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged beaten up. detail side view of aportion of the pattern-cyl- \Vhile I have described in specific terms inder. Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmental end the construction of a pattern-cylinder and View showing the lower end of the reed and mechanism for rotating said cylinder, Iwould 30 the manner in which the dents are mounted. have it distinctly understood that any suit- Fig. 7 is a face view of the same. Fig. 8 is able mechanism might be employed for mova face view of a portion of the material made ing such pattern device. in accordance with my invention. Having described the construction ofaloom In the drawings, A represents the framing embodying my invention, I will proceed to of a loom, which may be of the ordinary or describe the operation thereof. any preferred construction. To the batten The weft-thread having been shot the bat- B of the loom is secured a reed O in the usual ten is thrown so as to beat up the weft. manner. This reed O is provided with dents When the weft is beaten up, the thread, ina, each of which is pivoted at one end to the stead of running straight across the loom from o framing of the reed D, as indicated at b, and side to side in the ordinary manner, will fol is adapted to swing at the upper end thereof, low the contour of the reed, which contour is in the direction of the plane thereof, between determined by the pattern device, as clearly the side walls a of the framing of the reed D, indicated in Fig. 4. Thus the weft-thread the dents being properly spaced apart at the will determine or tend to produce the pattern 9 5 5 lower ends in any desired manner, but prefwhich is produced upon the pattern device. erably by a coiled spring cl, each convolution After each beat of the batten the ratchetof which projects between two of the dents,- wheel 9 is engaged by the pawl and is stepped as clearly indicated in Figs. 6 and 7. In adaround the extent of one or more teeth, so as dition to the coiled spacing-spring I find it to present anew portion of the pattern-cylin- 50 expedient to employ side bars 6 between the der to the reed to complete the pattern.

spring and the edges of the dents of the reed. It will be observed that by connecting up and means for maintaining the dents spaced.

apart at top and bottom and for limiting the backward-and-forward movement as well as the lateral movement thereof, a removable pattern-cylinder carried by the batten and adapted to contact directly with said movable dents and limit their movement in one direction, means for operating said cylinder automatically and means'for connecting the pattern-cylinder with and disconnecting it from the operating means, whereby the pattern-cylinder is rendered interchangeable, substantially as described.

2. In a loom, the combination of a'batten, a reed, a frame for said reed independent of the batten, said reed having movable dents and means for maintaining the dents spaced apart and for limiting the backward-and-forward movement as well as the lateral movement thereof, a removable pattern-cylinder carried by the batten and adapted to contact directly with said movable dents and-limit their movement in one direction, means carried by the said batten for connecting the pattern-cylinder to and disconnectingit from the batten whereby said pattern-cylinder .is rendered interchangeable and means independent of said batten for cooperating with the cylinder-connecting means to operate said cylinder, substantially as described.

3. A reed for looms, comprising a reedfrarne, dents movable in the direction of the planes thereof or at right angles to the length of the reed, each of which dents is pivoted at one end in the said reed-frame and free to vibrate at the opposite end and means carried by the reed-frame for limiting the forward-and-backward movement of the dents, said dents projecting at the free ends beyond the reed-frame, substantially as described.

4. A reed for looms, comprising a reedframe, independently-movable dents freely movable in the direction of their planes or at right angles to the length of the reed, and a spacing-reed carried by the reed-frame, the dents of which spacing-reed form spacing means for the movable dents of the reed proper, substantially as described.

5. A reed for looms, comprising a reedframe, independently-movable dents freely movable in the direction of their planes or at right angles to the length of the reed, a single pivot upon which said dents are mounted and around which they are adapted-to vibrate and a spacing-reed carried by the reed-frame, the dents of which form spacing means for the movable dents of the reed proper.

'6. A reed for looms, comprising a reedframe, independently-movable dents freely movable in the direction of their planes orat right angles to the length of the reed, a single pivot upon which said dents are mounted and around which they are adapted to vibrate, a coiled spring surrounding the said pivot for maintaining the movable dents properly spaced apart atone end, a spacing-reed carried by the reed-frame, the dents of which form spacing means for the movable dents at the free ends thereof, substantially as de- JAOOB \VALDER.

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XVitnesses:

ABRAM LA Ron,

JOHN .BLUNTSCHLI. 

